Dax Shepardis setting the record straight.
Two weeks afterKristen Bellshared that her husband flirts with her by complimentingtheir waiter or waitress while on a date, theParenthoodactor addressed misconceptions about their 13-year-old marriage.
“Another round of me being a terrible person was in the media, and I avoided that,” Shepard began on the Nov. 9 episode of hisArmchair Expert
podcast. “But then it hit Kristen’s doorstep really hard, and then I got to find out everything that people are saying about me.”
He argued that there is “a level of unjustness” regarding the perception of his behavior, noting that there is “this weird narrative that is surrounding me as controlling, abusive, now flirting with people in public, which I don’t do.”
The 51-year-old acknowledged that the way Bell—with whom he shares two daughters—explained their dynamic on the Oct. 26 episode of his podcast alongside herNobody Wants Thiscostars could have been misconstrued.
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Kristen Bell Reveals the Eyebrow-Raising Way Dax Shepard Flirts With Her
“I think she phrased it in a way that got intentionally, easily confused for people because we’re saying I flirt with Kristen by tipping people a lot and I flirt with Kristen by complimenting people,” Shepard said, “If you think I’m complimenting hot young waitresses, you got a problem.”
“I’m finding the dude that I don’t think has had a compliment in a while and tell him I love his shoes,” he clarified. “It’s always somebody that I want to make their day. Sothosecompliments are flirting with Kristen. But it got to be, when it went through the grinder, that I flirt with people in front of Kristen.”
The podcast host also shut down speculations that he abuses his wife or their kids.
“For me, growing up around certain men who behaved a certain way, and then literally dedicating my whole life to being the opposite of all that,” he shared, “I don’t ever yell at my children. I don’t swear at them. I don’t yell at my wife. To have given it my all to be the opposite of what, now, some group of people is saying I am is hard.”
“I find it deeply insulting to my wife, additionally,” Shepard continued. “She’s what? She’s sitting in a house with her two daughters and modeling some abusive relationship? It’s very offensive to her.”
Bell explained during the previous episodethat shefeels her husband is flirting with her by complimenting others and making them feel good.
“If we go to a dinner or something, there’s a couple things Dax does where he doesn’t have to look up and wink at me, but I know that he’s just being the best boy,” she recalled. “We’ll be at dinner and he’ll say to the waiter, waitress, he’ll go, ‘Wow, you have incredible eyelashes, gorgeous eyes, great job.'”
TheFrozenstar’s heart totally melts when Shepard “actively smiles at people and gives them compliments.”
As Bell and Shepard try their best to tune out the critics, keep reading for a look back at their sweet romance.
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“This is what 21 years of sobriety looks like,” she wrote. “Lots of hugging. Hugging everyone and everything. Hugging life. Thank you for getting sober, @daxshepard. I am eternally grateful to have you. We all are.”
